One other thing worth noting about the studio pre is that odds are, in standby mode you'll hear sound from the amp. It'll be a quiet sound but...and I'm pretty stinking embarrased to admit this.. but I went through an entire sound check this past wed night with the preamp in standby mode trying to figure out why the amp wasn't very loud!
I had all the master, volume, output knobs, etc all at 9 and 10 and I was going from the pre into a solid state 1X15 bass amp combo amp's FX loop return. I've used it before and never had a problem but it wasn't nearly this quiet before...
so after sound check was over, I reached up to flip the amp into standby mode and noticed it was already in standby. the silence of me standing there looking at that standby switch was deafening....
